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The Shema’s Mystery

“I bow to the mystery of One, to the mystery of the call…”
  • by Todd
God, shema
a person sitting at the end of a dock, looking into a lake

The Word is Wood

Hear, O Israel / the prayer was dance / Adonai Eloheinu / there were no pews
  • by Tzivia Gover
call and response, memory, nature, prayer, shema
a split image, on the left are trees and grass, on the right are buildings and a road

Shema

“Listen to the still small voice whispering your name…”
  • by Jacqueline Jules
shema
the words of the shema

Shema: Peace, like Breath

“Breathe. I command myself to focus on the words Shema Yisrael…”
  • by Shalen Lowell
breath, shema
a woman spreads open her arms to the sky. She is standing ina. field

The Image

“If you were not, / I never would have seen the face of creation.”
  • by Jaden Diamond
creation, diversity, shema
two people in silhouette on a mountaintop at sunset

Make of Yourself a Mezuzah: A Ritual in Preparation for Unification Through the Shema

A ritual for mindful and embodied recitation of the shema
  • by Rabbi Janet Madden
meditation, mezuzah, shema, tallit
woman looking up with eyes closed

Connection with All

“A cosmos of vibrations / Held gently within / This boundary / That is me.”
  • by Tiferet Welch
gratitude, shema
a woman silhouetted against a starry night sky

The Word is Wind

“the prayer was dance”
  • by Tzivia Gover
environment, nature, shema
light skinned young woman in a forest, hair blowing in the wind, arms swinging as if she is dancing. she wears a torqouise blue long tank top and jeans, and has long straight light brown hair.

Interpretive Third Paragraph of the Shema

“keep me open to wonder and awe so I don’t lose my way in the small places of heart and mind”
  • by Latifa Berry Kropf
shema
close up on rainbow colored tzitzit (fringes) on someone's waste

Today’s Shema: For the Victims of Terrorist Attacks in Israel

“Adonai Ekhad, One God / One life, eleven lives, too many”
  • by Cyd Weissman
Israel, shema, terrorism
holding-candle-many-candles

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Read & Rite

One-stop shop for progressive Jewish books and ritual objects

Placement Office

Placement resources for rabbis and congregations

Havaya Summer Programs

Overnight summer camp and teen Israel experience

Reconstructionist Educators of North America

Professional group for people leading schools in Reconstructionist congregations

Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association

Professional association of Reconstructionist rabbis